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Paul Tomkins
Q&A Session – on Rodgers, Rafa, FSG and More
inPaul Tomkins Q&A Session. Questions – on Rodgers, Rafa, FSG, Ian Ayre and more – posed by members of www.liverpoolroom.com. Please…
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Paul Tomkins
Incredible Reds, Rising To The Challenge
inBy Paul Tomkins. Seventy-one points, and top of the league in March? You’re kidding, right? A month or so ago,…
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Paul Tomkins
Why Brendan Rodgers Bucks The Trend
inBy Paul Tomkins. As any parent will tell you, it’s important to have a young British driver behind the wheel…
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Paul Tomkins
Drop This ‘Bravery’ Bollocks
inBy Paul Tomkins. Let’s get one thing straight: there’s absolutely nothing brave about giving it a go when you’ve got…
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Paul Tomkins
Twenty Times Better: Liverpool 3 United 0
inBy Paul Tomkins. Sunday, March 16th. “Twenty times” sang United fans at the end, perhaps referring to how much better…
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Paul Tomkins
Quicksilver Sterling Gathers No Moss
inBy Paul Tomkins. Ever since youth football matches started being recorded and/or televised there have been a number of performers…
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Why Liverpool Can Win the Title
inBy Paul Tomkins. One thing is inarguable right now: Liverpool look like a team on the up. Despite losing to…
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Why Liverpool Won’t Win the Title
inBy Paul Tomkins. While it’s not a long way from being a mathematical impossibility, Liverpool – whose home performances have…
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Paul Tomkins
The Big Comedown: A Week of Errors
inBy Paul Tomkins. Eight days ago we were basking in the glow of an absolute thrashing of the team colloquially…
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Paul Tomkins
Stick That In Your Pipe …
inBy Paul Tomkins. Some post-Everton / transfer thoughts One day, Brendan Rodgers’ Reds will have a mediocre match. Right now,…
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Paul Tomkins
Transfer Records, and Why They Mata
inBy Paul Tomkins. On Saturday, Channel 4’s Economics Editor Faisal Islam tweeted: “No one ever inflation-adjusts “record” transfer fees, do…
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Paul Tomkins
Does Anyone Actually Enjoy Football Anymore?
inBy Paul Tomkins. Modern life grows increasingly hectic. Equally, the game of football becomes ever more frantic, and with it…
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Paul Tomkins
The Good, the Bad and the Cissokho
inBy Paul Tomkins. Any time I start to buy into the potential brilliance of Brendan Rodgers he goes and does…
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Paul Tomkins
Money Buys Success: the Proof You Need?
inBy Paul Tomkins. A handful of years ago I joined forces with Graeme Riley to create the Transfer Price Index…
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Regal Rodgers and Mediocre Moyes
inBy Paul Tomkins. It’s been a while since we’ve been able to look down on Manchester United. Funnily enough, it’s…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Rubbish
inBy Paul Tomkins. Listening to a lot of Liverpool fans tweet – and presumably it’s the same on phone-ins (I’ve…
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Paul Tomkins
LFC 2013/14 vs LFC 2008/09
inBy Paul Tomkins. I think it’s pretty clear that this is the best Liverpool side since the vintage that finished…
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Paul Tomkins
Rodgers, and FSG’s Big Mistake
inBy Paul Tomkins. I don’t know if the 2012 documentary Being:Liverpool helped improve Liverpool’s global appeal at all – it’s…
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Paul Tomkins
Landmark Victory For Rodgers’ Reds
inBy Paul Tomkins. Well, that was unexpected. My pre-match fear about the Reds never doing well at White Hart Lane…
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Paul Tomkins
Fortune Favours The Brave?
inBy Paul Tomkins. It has to be said: even though this exciting Liverpool side is flawed, it fully merits its…
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Paul Tomkins
Build a Statue of Roy Hodgson at Anfield
By Paul Tomkins, Tomkins Rants / / 139 commentsinBy Paul Tomkins. The time has come: Roy Hodgson deserves his own statue outside Liverpool’s famous stadium. My suggestion is…
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Paul Tomkins
A Kick in the Balls
inBy Paul Tomkins. It’s been a very good start to the campaign for Liverpool, and yet all season I’ve been…
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Paul Tomkins
Tip Top, Top Cat: Steven Gerrard
inBy Paul Tomkins. I was recently asked to write a piece on Steven Gerrard for The Bib Theorists, which will…
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Does Rodgers Need To Be A Genius?
inBy Paul Tomkins. As Liverpool fans we’re steeped in the mythology of our managers as geniuses. It started with Bill…
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Paul Tomkins
Are You Happy, But Don’t Know It?
inBy Paul Tomkins. It seems strangely elusive, judging how good our team actually is right now, and indeed, how good…